The World Hurdle is a Grade 1 Hurdle for horses aged four years or older. It is run on the New Course at Cheltenham over a distance of about 3 miles where horses have to jump 12 hurdles

It is the leading long-distance hurdle event in the National Hunt calendar, and it is the feature race on the third day of the Festival.

This race is for the stayers and is a specialist race for those long distance hurdlers; it is in effect the hurdles version of the Gold Cup for Chasers.

In recent years a couple of horses have been at the forefront of this race and do well when coming back to defend their title. Inglis Drever and Big Bucks have been amazing to watch in this event.

Some Stats we can use to our advantage in this race:

Back horses in the age range of 6 to 8 as they do best.

Look to horses at SP of 8/1 or less in the betting the majority of winners are found in this range.

Your selection must have been placed last time out and have proven stamina.

Hold up horses do well in this event.

Irish horses have not done well in this race.

Your selection should have finished 1^st or 2^nd in a Grade 1 hurdle.

The most wins by any jockey in this race is 2 and currently Ruby Walsh has a great chance to become overall winning jockey if he wins it again in 2011 with Big Bucks.

He is an exceptional horse and will enter the history books if he wins it for the 3^rd year running.

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